Sunday 13 July
16.00-18.30
Registration
Monday 14 July
8.30-9.30
9.30-10.00
10.00-10.30
10.30-11.00
Registration
Opening session
Dialectology & Varieties of English
Reported speech
Discourse & Information structure
Grammaticalization (Verb Phrase)
Goundry, Katrin (University of
Glasgow)
Strong Class III verbs in time and
space
Whitt, Richard J. (The University of
Nottingham)
A diachronic investigation of evidentiality and genre variation in English
Wallis, Christine (University of
Sheffield)
Conservatism and innovation in
Anglo-Saxon scribal practice.
Hartmann, Stefan (University of
Mainz), Flach, Susanne (FU Berlin)
The rise of epistemic meaning: A
corpus-based perspective on
subjectification
Tizón-Couto, David (University of
Vigo)
Left-dislocated noun phrases in the
recent history of English: Evolution,
genre distribution and discourse
functions
Gather, Kirsten (University of
Cologne)
Syntactic dislocation in English congregational song between 1500 and
1900: A corpus-based study
Gardela, Wojciech (University of
Edinburgh)
Grammaticalization of markers of
ingressive aspect in the English and
Scots of the late 14th and the 15th
centuries
Klemola, Juhani (University of
Tampere) More on the origin of
passive get
12.00-12.30
12.30-13.00
Huber, Judith (LMU Munich) Nonmotion verbs in the intransitive
motion construction in the history of
English
Coffee break
11.00-11.30
11.30-12.00
Workshop 1
Cognitive approaches to the history
of English
Hoffmann, Thomas & Bergs,
Alexander (University of Osnabrück)
Introduction Workshop
Ciszek-Kiliszewska, Ewa (Adam
Mickiewicz University, Poznan)
Middle English preposition and
adverb emell(e)
Budna, Anna (University of Social
Sciences, Warsaw)
The present participle mark-ing in
Northern Middle English: A corpus
study
Elsweiler, Christine (LudwigMaximilians-Universität München)
Why Scotsmen will drown and shall
not be saved: On the development
of WILL and SHALL in Older Scots
Krischke, Ulrike (LudwigMaximilians-Universität Munich)
'Reported Discourse' in Old English:
An emerging construction?
Schneider, Claudia (Uni Jena),
Schuhmann, Roland (SAW Leipzig)
A comparison between the Finnsburg fragment and the Finnsburg
episode: An information structural
approach
Claridge, Claudia (University of
Nakayasu, Minako (Hamamatsu
Duisburg-Essen)
University, School of Medicine)
Speech, thought and writing presen- Spatio-temporal systems in Chaucer
tation in medieval history writing
Moore, Colette (University of
Washington)
Reported speech verbs and
semantic/pragmatic change:
quethen, quoth, quote
Krisda Chaemsaithong (Hanyang
University Seoul)
Arguing with the jurors: Personal
pronouns and identities in the opening statements of criminal trials
(1759-1789)
Johannsen, Berit (FU Berlin)
The function(s) of the have-perfect
in Old English
Winters, Margaret (Wayne State
University, Detroit)
Grammar change as semantic change
Feher, Olga (University of
Edinburgh), Ritt, Nikolaus
(University of Vienna), Smith, Kenny
(University of Edinburgh), Ten
Wolde, Elnora (University of Vienna)
The spread of (in-)definiteness
marking in Early English: Reconstructing category emergence in the
lab
Pentrel, Meike (University of
Osnabrück)
Towards a theory of historical psycholinguistics: The position of adverbial
clauses in Early Modern English
Hilpert, Martin (University of
Neuchâtel)
Relating language change to language
processing: A second look at
asymmetric priming
Lunch
13.00-14.30
14.30-15.00
15.00-15.30
Ruano-García, Javier (University of
Salamanca)
It is common in several of the provincial dialects of England: English
regional material in John Russell
Bartlett’s Dictionary of
Americanisms
Garcia-Bermejo Giner, María F.,
Ruano García, Javier & Sánchez
Garcia, Maria Pilar (University of
Salamanca)
The literary dialect features of the
Linguistic South 1500-1900
Widlitzki, Bianca (Justus Liebig
University Giessen)
Reporting clauses in 18th and 19th
century English: A diachronic study
of past tense I said and historic
present I says
Nykiel, Jerzy (University of Silesia)
The reduced definite article th’ in
the sixteenth century and the
definiteness cycle
Neels, Jakob (University of Leipzig)
Frequency measures and
collocations in grammaticalisation
Landert, Daniela (University of
Zurich)
The pragmatic functions of I say and
I tell (you) in Early Modern English
dialogues
de Dios, Tania (Universidade de
Santiago de Compostela)
Is retrievability a guarantee for
omission? A look into the recent
history of contextual object deletion
in American English
Petré, Peter (KULeuven)
Concluding discussion
On the role of frequency in the
grammatical constructionalization of
the passive construction
Coffee break
15.30-16.00
16.00-16.30
16.30-17.00
17.00-18.00
18.30
Schmid, Hans-Jörg & Mantlik, Anette
(University of München)
Entrenchment in historical corpora?
Reconstructing dead authors’ minds
from their usage profiles
Traxel, Oliver (University of
Wuerzburg)
The creation of pseudo-archaisms in
the 18th Century: A linguistic study
of Thomas Chatterton’s Rowley
Poems
Grabski, Maciej (University of Lodz,
Poland) The choice of relative
pronouns in the writings of Jonathan
Edwards
Evans, Mel (University of
Birmingham)
"Because her Majesty said...":
Agency, power and reported speech
in Early Modern Correspondence
Shibasaki, Reijirou (Meiji University)
Diachronic aspects of shell noun
constructions: With a focus on the
bottom line is (that)
Hundt, Marianne (University of
Zürich) & Payne, John (The
University of Manchester)
How weird are teenagers? Variation
and change in the use of noun-name
collocations
Rütten, Tanja (University of Cologne) Brinton, Laurel (University of British
The English imperative – from verb- Columbia) “Take my advice for what
to clause-level mood marker
it’s worth”: The rise of parenthetical
for what it’s worth
Plenary talk
Robert Fulk (Indiana University, Bloomington) ‒ English historical philology past, present, and future: A narcissist’s view
Reception
Tuesday 15 July
Plenary talk
Marit Westergaard (University of Tromsø) ‒ Gradualness vs. abruptness in acquisition and change
9.00-10.00
10.00-10.30
10.30-11.00
Morphology & Lexical change
Historical sociolinguistics
Phonology
Kharlamenko, Oxana (University of
Paris Sorbonne)
The unmarking markers, or variable
gender in the Old English gloss to
the Lindisfarne Gospels revisited
Mateo Mendaza, Raquel
(Universidad de La Rioja)
Alternative approaches on productivity for the Old English affixes -isc,
-cund, -ful and ful-.
Timofeeva, Olga (University of
Zürich)
Outgroup construction in early
medieval England
Oda, Toshihiro (Fukuoka University,
Japan)
Variations on Old English
Diphthongs
Ronan, Patricia (Université de
Lausanne)
The rise of the English language in
Ireland
Kołos, Marta (Warsaw University)
Instances of phonological weightsensitivity in Early Middle English
poetry
Bilynsky, Michael (Ivan Franko
National University in Lviv, Ukraine)
The paths and pace of deverbal
derivation in the earliest quotations
of the Oxford English Dictionary
Minkova, Donka (UCLA)
On the history of word clipping:
aphesis, syncope, apocope
12.00-12.30
1,2
12.30-13.00
Vezzosi, Letizia (University of
Perugia)
Reciprocal strategies in Middle
English: The development of each
other or the like.
Westergaard, Marit(University of
Tromsø) & Eitler, Tamás (Eötvös
Loránd University, Budapest)
Word order variation in late Middle
English
Coffee break
11.00-11.30
11.30-12.00
Workshop 2
Early English dialect morphosyntax
Seiler, Annina (University of Zurich)
de Haas, Nynke (Utrecht University) &
Article choice in early Middle English George Walkden (University of
Manchester)
Introduction Workshop
Grammaticalization (Noun Phrase)
Ogura, Mieko & Willliam S-Y.
Wang2 (1Linguistics Laboratory,
Tsurumi University, Yokohama,
2
Joint Research Centre for Language
and Human Complexity, Chinese
University of Hong Kong)
Lexical diffusion and
Neogrammarian regularity
Huber, Magnus (University of
Giessen)
Cleft constructions in 18th and 19th
century spoken English: A historical
sociolinguistic study based on the
Old Bailey Corpus
Fitzmaurice, Susan (University of
Sheffield)
Contingent polysemy and discursive
thresholds: Toward a sociohistorical
framework for semantic change
Walker, Terry (Mid-Sweden
University)
Third-person present singular verb
inflection in Early Modern English:
New evidence from speech-related
texts
Li, Xingzhong (Charles) (Central
Washington University)
Some notes on Chaucer’s metrics
Brems,Lot, Davidse, Kristin, Lesage,
Jakob & Van Linden, An (KU Leuven)
Negation, grammaticalization and
subjectification: The development of
polar, modal and mirative no wayconstructions
Werthmüller, Gyöngyi (Eötvös
Wallage, Phillip (Northumbria
Loránd University, Budapest)
University)
The interaction of stress and final -e Present-day variation between notin Gower’s and Chaucer’s Romance negation and no-negation: A
nouns
consequence of functional
differentiation within the Middle
English Jespersen Cycle
Beal, Joan & Sen, Ranjan (University Ziegeler, Debra (Université Sorbonne
of Sheffield)
Nouvelle Paris 3)
(W)ho, w(h)en, w(h)ere, and w(h)at? Calamities and cunterfactuals: A
The eighteenth-century
historical view of polarity reversal
pronunciation of ‘wh’
van Kemenade, Ans (Radboud
University Nijmegen)
V2 in Middle English dialects
Walkden, George (University of
Manchester)
Null subjects in Middle English
Rusten, Kristian (University of Bergen)
Null subjects in Old English: A case of
diatopic variaton?
Lunch
13.00-14.30
14.30-15.00
15.00-15.30
15.30-16.00
Sadej-Sobolewska, Kinga (University
of Social Sciences, Warsaw)
The lexical field of INTELLECT in Old
and Middle English: A pilot study
Dekeyser, Xavier (KU Leuven & UA
Antwerpen)
From spatial concepts to time in the
history of English: Continuity and
remoteness in time ‒ Metonymy
and metaphor
Alexander, Marc & Kay, Christian
(University of Glasgow)
Heaven and earth: Some metaphorical connections
Kirner-Ludwig, Monika (Augsburg
University)
’The wickede secte of Sara-cenys’:
Lexico-semantic means of creating
religious diversity in texts from the
Middle English Period
Schaefer, Ursula (TU Dresden /
Universität Freiburg)
On the time-depth and social
conditioning of binominals: The
example of to have and to hold
17.00-17.30
17.30-18.30
Ghesquière, Lobke (KU Leuven)
On the relation between degree
modifying and focusing adjective
uses: The case of sure and true
de Haas, Nynke (Utrecht University)
The Northern Subject Rule in Northern
and Midlands Middle English dialects:
Adding be to a picture of
morphosyntactic dialect variation
Fernández-Cuesta, Julia (Universidad
de Sevilla)
English morphosyntax from the
northern perspective: The resilience of
the Northern Subject Rule
Hotta, Ryuichi (Chuo University)
The ebb and flow of historical
variants of betwixt and between
Defour, Tine ( Ghent University)
From quantifiers to focus adverbs:
The developments of mostly and at
least
Antkowiak, Anna (Adam Mickiewicz
University)
Personal pronouns as clitics in
Middle English: Between spelling
and sound
Blanco-Suárez, Zeltia (University of
Santiago de Compostela)
Mortal lazy and deadly curious:
Some diachronic notes on the
intensifiers mortal and deadly
Marcelle Cole (Leiden University)
Explaining verbal morphosyntactic
variation in early English Dialect
Coffee break
16.00-16.30
16.30-17.00
Hickey, Raymond (University of
Duisburg-Essen)
Velarisation of /l/ in the history of
English
Khallieva Boiché, Olga (Sorbonne
Paris 4, CEMA)
Old English ead in Anglo-Saxon given
names: A comparative approach to
the Anglo-Saxon anthroponomy
Goto, Mariko (Kyushu Institute of
Technology, Iizuka)
Late Modern English grammar
writing and the aspectual restriction
on the progressive
Yamasaki, Takahiro (Chuo
University, Japan)
The dropping of -n in min and þin in
Laʒamon’s Brut: A comparison of
the two extant texts
Welna, Jerzy (University of Warsaw)
On the competition of two intensifiers: ME full and very
Carola Trips (University of Mannheim)
& Achim Stein (University of Stuttgart)
Diatopic variation of two syntactic
constructions in Middle English and its
implications for language contact
Chapman, Don (Brigham Young
University)
Compounds: Poetry vs. prose
Anderwald, Lieselotte (University of
Kiel, Germany)
The get-passive in nineteenthcentury English: Corpus analysis and
prescriptive comments
Suzuki, Hironori (Daito Bunka
University, Japan)
On MV/VM order in Old English
long-line poetry
Méndez-Naya, Belén (University of
Santiago de Compostela)
From spatial adjunct to degree modifier: On the development of the
intensifier function of 'out'-adverbs
Concluding discussion
Plenary talk
Charles Boberg (McGill University, Montreal) ‒ Flanders Fields and the consolidation of Canadian English
Wednesday 16 July
9.00-9.30
9.30-10.00
10.00-10.30
10.30-11.00
Code switching & Scribal practices
Pragmatics & Genre
Discourse & Information structure
VP syntax
Skaffari, Janne (University of Turku)
He luuede abstinenciam: Patterns of
code-switching and language-mixing
in post-Conquest texts
Bator, Magdalena & Sylwanowicz,
Marta (University of Social Sciences,
Warsaw)
Measures in medieval English
recipes – culinary vs. medical
Sylvester, Louise (University of
Westminster)
Technical vocabulary and medieval
text types: A semantic field
approach
Pérez Lorido, Rodrigo (University of
Oviedo)
On multiple clausal embedding in
Old English
Bouzada-Jabois, Carla (University of
Vigo - KU Leuven)
Free adjuncts in Late Modern
English: A corpus-based study
Gaszewski, Jerzy & Cichosz, Anna
(University of Lodz)
Subordinate clauses in selected Old
English translations
Fonteyn, Lauren & van de Pol, Nikki
(KU Leuven)
All for one and one for all: the
formation, evolution and functions
of Modern English ing-clauses
Mäkinen, Martti (Hanken School of
Economics)
Persuasion in early medicine: Ethos,
pathos and logos in Early Modern
English recipes
Dossena, Marina (Università degli
Studi di Bergamo)
“Dispensers of knowledge”: An
early investigation into nineteenthcentury popular(ized) science
Broccias, Cristiano (University of
Genoa)
The simultaneity AS construction
from Old English to Middle English
Lavidas, Nikolaos (Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki)
Cognate object constructions in
Early Modern English: The case of
Tyndale’s New Testament
Berlage, Eva (University of
Hamburg)
Composite predicate constructions:
Lexicalisation or delexicalisation?
Kaislaniemi, Samuli (University of
Helsinki)
Code-switching and script-switching
in Early Modern English letters
Mäkilähde, Aleksi (University of
Turku)
The pragmatic functions of codeswitching in Early Modern English
school drama
Pahta, Päivi, Nurmi, Arja, Tyrkkö,
Jukka & Petäjäniemi, Anna
(University of Tampere)
Multilingual practices in Late
Modern English: A frequency-based
approach
Bech, Kristin (University of Oslo)
Old ‘truths’, new corpora: Old
English conjunct clauses revisited
Part One: Old English
Kotake, Tadashi (University of
London/Keio University, Tokyo)
Binomials or not? A study of double
glosses in Farman’s glosses to the
Rushworth Gospels
Kolasińska, Paulina (Adam Mickiewicz
University, Poznan)
Binomials, ambiguity and lexical
variety in the mid-12th century glossing practice in the Eadwine Psalter
Ogura, Michiko (Keio University,
Tokyo)
Features of word pairs in Old English
poetry
Coffee break
11.00-11.30
Caon, Luisella (Leiden University)
A Tretys of Goostely Batayle: One
scribe facing more Middle English
dialects
Lubbers, Thijs (University of
Edinburgh)
Profiling stylistic change using
instructional writing on horses: The
case of reader orientation
Bartnik, Artur (Catholic University of
Lublin)
Coordination and resumptive
pronouns in Old English
Lowrey, Brian (Universite De
Picardie)
Finite causative complements In
Middle English
12.00-12.30
Thaisen, Jacob (University of
Stavanger)
Standardisation and the Auchinleck
manuscript
Moessner, Lilo (RWTH Aachen
University)
Genre analysis of Old English legal
writing: Focus on wills
Links, Meta & van Kemenade, Ans
(Radboud University Nijmegen)
Correlative constructions in earlier
English: The þa … þa construction
Iyeiri, Yoko (Kyoto University)
Syntactic variation and change
relating to causative make in early
Modern English
12.30-13.00
Honkapohja, Alpo (University of
Zurich)
“Where did these Midland forms
come from?”: A dialectological study
of the Voigts-Sloane Group of
Middle English medical and
alchemical manuscripts
Komen, Erwin R. (Radboud
University Nijmegen)
Subject-position alternations in PPinitial main clauses
Davies, Mark (Brigham Young
University)
The development of the “causative
V-ing” construction in American
English
11.30-12.00
Workshop 3
Exploring binomials: History,
structure, motivation and function
Joanna Kopaczyk, Joanna (Adam
Mickiewicz University) & Hans Sauer
(LMU Munich)
Introduction: Exploring binomials
Part Two: Middle English
Borchers, Melanie (University of
Duisburg-Essen)
The French influence on Middle
English binomials and their ordering
constraints
Kubaschewski, Elisabeth (LudwigMaximilians-Universität, Munich)
Binomials in Caxton’s Ovid
Tani, Akinobu (Hyogo University of
Teacher Education, Hyogo)
Caxton’s use of binomials for printing
or translation?
Lunch
13.00-14.30
14.30-15.00
15.00-15.30
15.30-16.00
16.00-16.30
Vennemann, Theo (University of
Munich),
Old problems and new solutions in
English runology: Thorn, eoh, and
the duplex runes
Sobol, Helena (University of
Warsaw)
Diversity between panels of the
Franks Casket: Spelling and runic
paleography
Rogos, Justyna (Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznan)
Abbreviating Lydgate: Ideographic
symbols in two manuscripts of the
Troybook and The Siege of Thebes
But, Roxanne (University of
Sheffield)
Linguistic appropriation of slang in
historical context(s)
Cichosz, Anna (University of Lodz),
Gaszewski, Jerzy (University of Lodz)
Grabski, Maciej (University of Lodz)
The V-2 Phenomenon in Old English
and Old High German translations
Suhr, Carla (University of Turku)
Dreschler, Gea (VU University
Relations and news: Textual labels in Amsterdam / Radboud University
the titles of early modern news
Nijmegen)
pamphlets
The increasingly marked status of
non-subjects in initial position after
the loss of verb second
Nissel, Magnus (University of
Los, Bettelou (University Of EdinGiessen)
burgh), Hebing, Rosanne (Radboud
Online collaborative corpus
University Nijmegen), Komen, Erwin
annotation: Extending the Old Bailey (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Corpus one trial at a time
“Permissive” English subjects
Sarnecki, Mateusz (University of
Warsaw)
The diachronic aspects of
complement variation in two
communication verbs
Kolbe-Hanna, Daniela (Trier
University), D'hoedt, Frauke (KU
Leuven), Cuyckens, Hubert (KU
Leuven)
Think in Old and Middle English
Part Three: Early/Late Modern
English
Rutkowska, Hanna (University of
Poznan) Binomials in several editions
of an early modern almanac
Lehto, Anu (University of Helsinki)
Binomials and multinomials in Early
Modern English parliamentary acts
Tyrkkö, Jukka (University of Tampere)
Binomials in English novels of the late
modern period : Fixedness,
formulaicity and style
Coffee break
Poster session
16.30-17.00
Schneider, Gerold (University of Zurich), Hundt, Marianne (University of Zurich) ‒ Part-of-speech annotation in historical corpora: Comparative evaluation of tagger output
Gardner, Anne (University of Zurich), Hundt, Marianne (University of Zurich), Kindlimann, Moira (University of Zurich) ‒ Towards the digitisation of the Lady Mary Hamilton archive (letters and
diaries)
17.00-18.00
Plenary talk
Peter Grund (University of Kansas) ‒ Identifying stances: The (re)construction of strategies and practices of stance in a historical community
18.00-19.00
Business meeting
20.15
Conference dinner
Thursday 17 July
9.00-9.30
9.30-10.00
Lexicology & Language contact
Pragmatics & Genre
Lass, Roger & Laing, Margaret
(University of Edinburgh)
On Middle English she, sho: A
refurbished narrative [1/2]
Salmi, Hanna (University of Turku)
Features of verbal conflict in early
English debate poetry
Lass, Roger & Laing, Margaret
(University of Edinburgh)
On Middle English she, sho: A
refurbished narrative [2/2]
Alcorn, Rhona (University of
Edinburgh)
How ‘them’ could have been ‘his’
10.00-10.30
10.30-11.00
12.00-12.30
VP syntax
Chankova, Yana (South-West
University 'N. Rilski')
Generating Vfin-IO(Dat)-Vnon-finDO(Acc) and Vfin-DO(Acc)-Vnon-finIO(Dat) orders in Old English and Old
Icelandic
Williams, Graham (University of
Yanagi, Tomohiro
Sheffield)
Movability of dative-marked objects
More cutting than the sword: Verbal of transitive adjectives in Old English
irony and 'civilizing trends' of power
in medieval Englishes
Denison, David (University of
Manchester), Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria
(University of Manchester)
Which comes first in the double
object construction?
Bös, Birte (University of DuisburgEssen)
Verbal misconduct through the lens
of Victorian London newspapers
Bemposta-Rivas, Sofia (University of
Vigo)
I didn't dare to make the smallest
repartee, I need hardly tell you: A
corpus-based study of the infinitival
complements governed by need and
dare in the recent history of English
Shank, Christopher (Bangor
University), Plevoets, Koen
(University of Ghent)
Structural features as predictors for
that/zero variation in mental state
verbs (MSVs): A diachronic corpus
based multivariate analysis.
Marcelle Cole (Leiden University)
Leitner, Magdalena (University of
Where did THEY come from? A
Glasgow)
native origin for THEY, THEIR, THEM. Slander, cursing and verbal
th
th
aggression in 16 -/17 -century
Scottish court-records
Van Gelderen, Elly (Arizona State
University)
Psych-verbs in the history of English:
The reanalysis of argument
structure
Parra-Guinaldo, Víctor (American
University of Sharjah, UAE)
The linguistic cycle: A re-examination of Old English hwæðer
‘whether’
Zehentner, Eva (University of
Vienna)
On privative verbs and the double
object construction in Middle
English
Eitelmann, Matthias (Johannes
Gutenberg-University, Mainz) &
Haumann, Dagmar (University of
Agder, Kristiansand)
Processes of argument augmentation
and reduction in the history of English
Peter Siemund (University of
Hamburg)
The emergence of English reflexive
verbs: An analysis based on the Oxford
English Dictionary
Mondorf, Britta (Johannes GutenbergUniversity, Mainz)
On the relation between verb
entrenchment and detransitivization
Coffee break
11.00-11.30
11.30-12.00
Syntax & Modality
Workshop 4
(De)Transitivization: Processes of
argument augmentation and
reduction in the history of English
Pons-Sanz, Sara M. (University of
Westminster)
Anger, fear and amusement: The
lexico-semantic field of emotions in
the Ormulum
Ingham, Richard (Birmingham City
University)
Prosodic movement and emphatic
focus in Late Middle English
Lutz, Angelika (University of
Erlangen)
The survival of Norse loans into
Middle English and their infiltration
of late medieval London English
Breitbarth, Anne (Ghent University)
The development of ‘conditional’
should in English
Schmid, Hans-Joerg & Mantlik,
Anette (Ludwig Maximilians
University Munich, Germany)
Entrenchment in historical corpora?
Reconstructing dead authors’ minds
from their usage profiles
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (KU Leuven)
Typological profiling: analyticity
versus syntheticity between Middle
English and Present-Day English
Rodriguez-Puente, Paula (University of
Cantabria)
(De)transitivizing particles in the
history of English
Möhlig-Falke, Ruth (University of
Heidelberg)
Constructional loss and changes in
verbal argument structure: The case
of the early English impersonal
construction
12.30-13.00
Keller, Jonas (University of Zurich)
Semi-Communication and the
Lexicon. Leipzig-Jakarta Lists for Old
English and Old Norse
15.00-15.30
15.30-16.00
Gonzalez-Diaz, Victorina (University
of Liverpool)
“Dyvers heynous sedicious and
sclanderous Writinges”: Adjective
stacking in the English NP
Luisa García García (University of
Sevilla)
Does morphological simplification
affect word-order in Early Middle
English? The case of labile verbs
Lunch
13.00-14.30
14.30-15.00
Haeberli, Eric (University of Geneva),
Ihsane, Tabea (University of Geneva)
The History of English Auxiliaries:
Evidence from Adverb Placement
Durkin, Philip & Allan, Kathryn
(University College London)
Moving beyond date of first
attestation and language of origin:
Examining the impact of loanwords
on a lexical field in Early Modern
English
McColl Millar, Robert (University of
Aberdeen)
Near-relative contact: Causes for the
development of Middle English
Anna Wojtyś (Univerisity of Warsaw) Thim, Stefan (University of Vienna)
Tracing an obsolete preteriteNew native prefixes in Middle
present verb: the fates of OE
English
*dugan
Elenbaas, Marion (Leiden University)
Valency effects in English verb-particle
and light verb constructions (and what
it tells us about grammaticalisation)
Kaita, Kousuke
A study on Old English dugan: Its
potential for auxiliation
Tanabe, Harumi (Seikei University)
Phrasal verbs as an alternative to
prefixed verbs in Middle English?
Cloutier, Robert A. (University of
Amsterdam)
The Celtic influence on the Old
English beon on V-unge construction
re-evaluated
Tomaszewska, Magdalena
(University of Warsaw)
On the status of *magan in Old
English
Smitterberg, Erik (Uppsala
University)
Particle placement in nineteenthcentury English: A multi-factorial
study
Rohdenburg, Günter (University of
Paderborn)
On the differential evolution of simple
and complex object constructions in
English
Concluding discussion
16.00-16.30
Coffee break
16.30-17.30
Plenary talk
María José López-Couso (University of Santiago de Compostela) ‒ On structural hypercharacterization: Some examples from the history of English syntax
17.30-18.00
Closing session